In these situations, mind-wandering is thought to occur due to a failure of executive resources to keep attention engaged and focused on the primary task (Kane & McVay, 2012; McVay & Kane, 2009; Thomson, Besner, & Smilek, 2015).
Identification of cognitive resources (executive function or attention) engaged during dual-tasking triggers a reduction in walking speed in older subjects, 7– 10 and even cessation of walking in subjects with Alzheimer's disease.
The Daraprim price-hike made Shkreli one of the most reviled men in the world, denounced even by Donald Trump, but he seemed to enjoy the attention, engaging in frequent fisticuffs on Twitter, going back on a promise to lower Daraprim's price, and spending millions on the only copy of Wu-Tang Clan's latest album/conceptual art project in existence.
"It takes a bit to wind down," said JoDee Winterhof, chief of staff to Rep. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz)., but "kids are... good trainers to get your attention, engage and put down your technology".
This process might be as follows: engaging in substitute actions (i.e., excessive eating, distracting one's attention, engaging in thinking about pleasant matters, watching television more than usual, reading books on neutral topics, and excessive sleepiness); and seeking social contacts.
This made it the opposite of a Dickens novel, in which your experience is expertly guided, your attention constantly engaged.
When I'm at parties with other journalists and authors, only a small percentage of my attention is engaged by conversation.
He lacked manners, she said, and was 'very aggressive, loud with an insatiable need to be the centre of attention, constantly engaged in bratty pranks of one sort or another'.
Attention is engaged at the point of introduction, and for many of us, we're presented with worthwhile content outside of our RSS readers or favorite bookmarks.
Participants explained that students would be more likely to pay attention, stay engaged, and work "if they see the relevance or importance" of a topic to their own lives.
Second, the switching conditions (difficult-to-easy and easy-to-difficult) recruited more attention and engaged more executive function than repeating ones, which can be indexed by the heightened brain activations in related brain regions.
